In her short film Rapture, the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat focuses on the relationship between the sexes in her fundamentalist home country (Ill.) Next to it, there is a group of 25 identically grinning men - all self-portraits of the Chinese artist Yue Minjun in jeans and a white teeshirt, the standard uniform of Western consumerism (Ill.) In fundamentalist societies, the clash between the individual and the collectivity is resulting in a revival of the »ornament of the masses«. In 1927, marked by his experiences of National Socialism, the sociologist Siegfried Kracauer wrote an essay with that same title, in which he explored the theme of the mass cultural phenomenon of an emerging entertainment industry. The exhibition sees itself as being a platform on which, against the backdrop of the ornamental, a whole range of questions can be discussed, not just aesthetic ones but also issues relating to sociology, ethnology, the media and communications.